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How Stinky the royal dog trumped the Kaiser 

Before 1800, many dogs in Britain would have been the sort of rascally, wire-haired mutts made up of 57 varieties.Then along came certain devoted Victorian dog-lovers, who wanted to introduce more exotic foreign varieties —and in a…

It’s a dog’s life in a dog collar

MEMOIR TOUCHING CLOTH: CONFESSIONS AND COMMUNIONS OF A YOUNG PRIEST by the Reverend Fergus Butler Gallie (Penguin £16.99, 192pp)When Fergus Butler-Gallie was a young curate in Liverpool, he was conducting a Merchant Navy Remembrance Day…